#fanatic

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#age #fanatic #fed up #finding #fitness

I was never a fanatical movie person. ↗

— John Malkovich

#i #movie #never #person

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#fanatics #find #freaks #go #i

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cynics #fanatics #government #humane #limit

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion

I'm a horror movie fanatic. ↗

— Gina Philips

#horror #horror movie #i #movie

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#creed #fanaticism #fashionable #multiplication #table

Good habits are worth being fanatical about. ↗

— John Irving

#being #fanatical #good #good habits #habits